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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have ADHD as do my kids.
I think the name is somewhat inaccurate and misleading, but a name change at this point is likely to be more confusing than helpful.  And really, it is a deficit, and reframing it as an advantage is not particularly helpful, especially when one is seeking educational services, insurance coverage, accommodations, etc. 
 
I always think of it like the brain has a lousy triage nurse.  Lots of different stimuli are coming into the brain, and the triage nurse should be figuring out who can wait in chairs versus who needs to be seen immediately.  The ADHD brain triage nurse is like Dr. House -- too busy focusing on the quirky interesting patient to notice the person having a run-of-the-mill heart attack in front of them.  Or just bored with all the ordinary car crash and colds in the ER, so decides to just sit in his office all day playing Tetris waiting for an interesting patient to come along. 
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I always call it attention disregulation. It’s a more accurate description. And it’s also an executive function deficit. I think VAST is too ambiguous. [/quote]
Our former developmental pediatrician at KKI told us that ADHD is really a disregulation of attention rather than a deficit of attention.[/quote]

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